Ten Inventions That May Change Your World
from the who-said-innovation-was-dead? dept
Newsweek is running one of those always-popular stories talking about "ten inventions that will change your world". To avoid the unnecessary overhype, I probably would (and did in my title) change the headline to "may change your world". Still, though, I always find these types of articles interesting, if just to get me thinking about new possibilities. Yes, clearly, some of these technologies are overhyped or vaporware, and some may go nowhere. However, it's a good reminder of the spirit of innovation - something that (despite repeated predictions of an "end to innovation) will never go away. Some of the more interesting technologies mentioned are advances in ways to "trick" the tongue into tasting flavors that aren't there (useful for making dietary products taste like their fat-and-calorie filled relatives) and quantum cryptography (where the act of spying on a message changes the message itself, so you know it's been tampered with).
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90% of "taste" is smell
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How about "top 10 phenomenons"?
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I'm not fat!
Reminds me of an old sci-fi story I read some place about a scientest who devoted his life to curing cancer so people can still enjoy smoking, etc.
After many years of zero success, he goes nuts and instead invents a laboratory mouse that is totally immune to cancer and unveils it to a room full of tobacco company managers, DDT manufacturers, etc.
After a few minutes of them all going "huh?", one of them finally makes the connection and stands up and shouts "Hey, tobacco does NOT cause cancer in laboratory animals!" and then the DDT people say "Yeah, DDT does NOT cause cancer in laboratory animals!" and the world goes back to using all the carcinogenic products that had been done away with... but everybody still died of cancer.
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One thing is missing that would change the world
Phillip.
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Re: One thing is missing that would change the wor
http://www.skywebexpress.com
The ultimate vision of PRT is 80-100mph vehicles that take you point-to-point nonstop without you having to drive. Much safer than cars and quicker too. Theoretically they wouldn't even slow down in dense city centers and they would be elevated so pedestrians wouldn't be in danger. Of course, getting investors or government to spend the money on something that is potentially unworkable is never easy. It seems a lot more revolutinary than the Segway though if it works.
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